Normal behavior, Or Bug?

[slim]

Thanks for the replies!!
I'm not sure what you mean by use right click menu/edit
after highlighting text it cant be right clicked, Well it can, but
nothing happens
thanks

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 02:39, Kevin Francis wrote:
> That's normal behaviour - the copy/paste model is still being resolved
> over @ freedesktop.org. As for evolution, use the right click menu/edit
> menu after selection and copy. Hope this helps.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 10:50, slim wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > I was just wondering if this behavior is normal..
> > When copying text from any application and pasting to any other
> > location, The copied text will be lost if the application from which you
> > copied is shut down..
> > 
> > two examples
> > 
> > if coping text from one terminal to another, the text copied will be
> > lost if first terminal is exited before the paste operation.
> > 
> > lets say I copy some text from my mail reader, shut down the mail reader
> > then go to paste in any application the text is lost.
> > 
> > Also on a side note, with evolution, I can not copy text from message
> > body...
> > 
> > I am having these problems on the two machines I have running fedora on.
> > 
> > 1 is an amd upgraded from valhalla> shrike> FC1> FC2T3
> > 
> > the other is a clean install of FC2T3  pent-II 
> > 
> > Thanks for any insights
> -- 
> Kevin Francis
> <http://denial.loose-screws.com>
>